Falcon questions

[Un4Gvn]

Helicopters and Flight Sims and stuff = Joystick
Gameconsole and single player stuff = Gamepad

The Falcon.........................................= I'm hung up between JoyPad and Gunstick
lol

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

ITS OFFICIAL MY NOVINT FALCONS NAME IS..... *drum roll* ...GIZMO!! :laugh: :biggrin: Still working great..

John - PDS

 

[Too fat to fish]

Please someone give me some insight as to how I get this thing to do anything but spin. I think I am going to toss my lunch if I have to use it again .

 

[joshcash]

Novint+eGO=EPIC WIN

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

Please someone give me some insight as to how I get this thing to do anything but spin. I think I am going to toss my lunch if I have to use it again .

I guarantee that whenever you do figure out whats going on with your falcon and fix it that you will enjoy it. I messed up an important process of installing everything and thats where I went wrong, I don't know if you are having the same troubles as I am though. I asked questions here (answered by Novints owner - Tom), emailed Novint support as well got some help from Night Slayer and Novints support - Eric... I would love to explain in detail of what I did to fix my problem, but I have forgotten in what order everything is supposed to be put together in... sorry...

 

[a pet rock]

I would love to explain in detail of what I did to fix my problem, but I have forgotten in what order everything is supposed to be put together in... sorry...

That is not surprising in the slightest. That gizmo must be pretty hard to figure out, huh PDS?

 

[RampantDingo]

Gizmo, what an unoriginal name. If I had the spare money to buy one, I would call it RampantDingo JR.

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

Yeah I was thinking about more names like Gizmo, Gadget, or Walle... I don't know I just went with Gizmo because of the z... GiZmo. Bleh I don't know...

and APR, don't you talk about my GiZmo like that :laugh: :biggrin:

 

[tomnovint]

Please someone give me some insight as to how I get this thing to do anything but spin. I think I am going to toss my lunch if I have to use it again .

You need to download our current drivers off our website (under the support tab), and make sure N VeNT is not on when running Steam games. That should fix the problem for you. thx, tomnovint

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

Yeah he has done that already, a few times actually. I think he is having the same problem as I was, but I don't remember the steps to take so that it gets fixed... grr.

 

[tomnovint]

Is he running N VeNT - it should be off when playing Steam games. that's the only time I've heard of the uncontrollable spinning.

thx, tomnovint

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

He was, but then whenever he didn't run it nothing happened it wouldn't even turn on. When I go in-game I get an extra tab in options for the Falcon settings, he doesn't get that. What I think Too Fat To Fish did was that he plugged his falcon in before he was supposed to, also he still was connected to the enternet. When I talked with Night Slayer he said that Eric had informed him about something about when you install the drivers and then plug the falcon in and your connection is still enabled that it will automatically install something that will prevent it from running correctly... I'm not exactly sure what he said, can't remember but I think that is kind of along the same lines as that? Sorry I'm not much help heh, Too Fat, once he responds to my PM I'll see if I can get him to call up support or email y'all explaining what is happening with his falcon.

Thanks for the reply,

John - PDS

 

[tomnovint]

ok. definitely don't run N VeNT when playing. that basic mouse control wasn't intended for games. Yeah, it is definitely some type of driver issue. customersupport [at] novint [dot] com should be able to clear it up. thx, tomnovint

 

[Night Slayer]

He was, but then whenever he didn't run it nothing happened it wouldn't even turn on. When I go in-game I get an extra tab in options for the Falcon settings, he doesn't get that. What I think Too Fat To Fish did was that he plugged his falcon in before he was supposed to, also he still was connected to the enternet. When I talked with Night Slayer he said that Eric had informed him about something about when you install the drivers and then plug the falcon in and your connection is still enabled that it will automatically install something that will prevent it from running correctly... I'm not exactly sure what he said, can't remember but I think that is kind of along the same lines as that? Sorry I'm not much help heh, Too Fat, once he responds to my PM I'll see if I can get him to call up support or email y'all explaining what is happening with his falcon.

Thanks for the reply,

John - PDS

what i said was "if you plug it in before installing the drivers it would install mouse drivers, and sometimes if even if you install the drivers it would attempt to go off on its own and install mouse drivers from the internet. so unplugging the internet might stop this"

or something along those lines

 

[NADES]

Any news on canadian shipping? I want one of these! Please let me know in a pm or this thread when it's a option, and a applicable code that we can use (for those canadians' that missed out )

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

Oh okay, well then that will help a bunch, thanks Night Slayer.
NADES just send an email to them, they'll see that before they see this post... I think.
[email protected]
I've had a fast reply whenever I needed some information, just a little tip. :thumbsup:
Tom has been looking at this thread also so you could just wait for a reply here, anyways just gives you a couple of options

 

[NADES]

I didn't want to bug customer support as i'm not a customer(yet)

I see international shipping is now* available, now i just need to get a coupon so i can cash in(like everyone else!)

Then i can push this great device on some members of other communities

 

[tomnovint]

you can buy a Falcon to ship to Canada now on our site - just went live last night. You can use ego33 as the code (I think I'm remembering that right). This bundle is different than last weeks - a little more expensive but a lot more software and a much higher percentage discount.

thanks
Tom

 

[NADES]

Hum, well it's the same 199 package, only now it's 149.99 instead of 99.99 after the code :\
I dont see any other differances, and it's still the 199.99(which was the last package. Maybe i'm terrible at math, but the same orginal cost, with half the discount, isn't a higher % savings is it? shipping is 62.99, before customs charges, i guess i'll wait till someone else like ncix or someone carries these...

 

[tomnovint]

Hey Nades, it's got quite a bit more software than before, which is the reason that it's a higher discount. The $99 special was a really unique deal too - That's the lowest we've sold it in 2.5 years, and we likely won't do it at that price again anytime soon. That being said, since you were in Canada and couldn't get the deal last week since our international shipping wasn't open, and since you're EGO (I'm only doing this for EGO) you can email customersupport [at] novint [dot] com, and reference this post - we can manually do a $99 order with Falcon and pistol grip for you.

thx, tomnovint